The Plurality of Worlds: With an Introduction by Edward HitchcockGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 368 sider |
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Side 28
... result has been , in a great number of cases , that the nebulæ are proved to consist entirely of distinct stars ; and that the diffused nebulous appearance is discovered to have been an illusion , resulting from the accumulated light of ...
... result has been , in a great number of cases , that the nebulæ are proved to consist entirely of distinct stars ; and that the diffused nebulous appearance is discovered to have been an illusion , resulting from the accumulated light of ...
Side 29
... results of the vast distance at which they are placed from us . And thus , perhaps , all the nebulæ are , what some of them seem certainly to be , so many vast armies of stars , each of which stars , we have reason to believe , is of ...
... results of the vast distance at which they are placed from us . And thus , perhaps , all the nebulæ are , what some of them seem certainly to be , so many vast armies of stars , each of which stars , we have reason to believe , is of ...
Side 51
... results and conclusions are the same . If there be intelligent inhabitants of the Moon , they may , like us , have employed their intelligence in reason- ing upon the properties of lines and angles and triangles ; and must , so far as ...
... results and conclusions are the same . If there be intelligent inhabitants of the Moon , they may , like us , have employed their intelligence in reason- ing upon the properties of lines and angles and triangles ; and must , so far as ...
Side 52
... results of the exercise of these powers and faculties have been very different in different ages ; and have gradually grown up , from small beginnings , to the vast and complex body of knowledge concerning the scheme and relations of ...
... results of the exercise of these powers and faculties have been very different in different ages ; and have gradually grown up , from small beginnings , to the vast and complex body of knowledge concerning the scheme and relations of ...
Side 53
... speculations ; the view which we have just taken , of the na ture of Intellect , as a faculty always of the same kind , always uniform in its operations , always consistent in its results FURTHER STATEMENT OF THE DIFFICULTY . 53.
... speculations ; the view which we have just taken , of the na ture of Intellect , as a faculty always of the same kind , always uniform in its operations , always consistent in its results FURTHER STATEMENT OF THE DIFFICULTY . 53.
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Side 23 - O rack me not to such a vast extent; Those distances belong to thee: The world's too little for thy tent, A grave too big for me.
Side 271 - Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Side 68 - Far other life you live, far other tongue You talk, far other thought, perhaps, you think, Than man. How various are the works of God! But say, what thought?
Side 336 - The recognition of an ideal exemplar for the vertebrated animals, proves that the knowledge of such a being as man must have existed before man appeared. For the Divine Mind which planned the archetype also foreknew all its modifications. The archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh, under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
Side 351 - Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine: For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft...
Side 129 - The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the compass of a few years, in the course of myriads of ages ; why not then into the compass of a few miles, in the expanse of systems...
Side 141 - Taking the apparent semidiameter of the nubecula major at 3°, and regarding its solid form as, roughly speaking, spherical, its nearest and most remote parts differ in their distance from us by a little more than a tenth part of our distance from its centre.
Side 260 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.